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NOTE: THIS IS A SIMPLE RESOLUTION. SIMPLE RESOLUTIONS ARE USUALLY USED TO EXPRESS A SENSE OR POSITION OF ONE CHAMBER. SIMPLE RESOLUTIONS DO NOT ADVANCE TO THE OTHER CHAMBER, ARE NOT PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT, AND DO NOT CARRY THE WEIGHT OF LAW.

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Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt a resolution providing for conditional ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction by the United States.

Highlights:

Requires the President to notify all signatories of the Convention of the right of the Senate to give advice to the Convention and consent to ratification, subject to reservations.

Further requires the President to submit an annual report to the Congress identifying all financial arrangements with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

States that no U.S. intelligence may be provided to the OPCW without first going through proper certification by the Director of Central Intelligence.

Acknowledges that the collapse of the "Australia Group" could interfere with the purpose and objective of the Convention and requests that the group remain a prominent and efficient mechanism for limiting the creation and proliferation of chemical and biological weapons.

Affirms the dominance of the U.S. Constitution over anything in the Convention.

Prevents the President from providing chemical defense assistance, with specified exceptions, to any state or party that is not eligible for such assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

Prohibits laboratory samples collected in the United States from being transferred outside the United States for the purposes of analysis.

Limits U.S. annual contribution to the OPCW to $25 million until the year 2000.